The Codification Of Medical Morality: Historical And Philosophical Studies Of The Formalization Of Western Medical Morality In The Eighteenth And ... Jurisprudence In The Nineteenth Century
by R.B. Baker /
1995 / English / PDF
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Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its predecessor
arose over lunch in the cafeteria of the old Wellcome Institute. On
an atternoon in Sept- ber 1988, Dorothy and Roy Porter, and I,
sketched out a plan for a set of conf- ences in which scholars from
a variety of disciplines would explore the emergence of modern
medical ethics in the English-speaking world: from its pre-history
in the quarrels that arose as gentlemanly codes of etiquette and
honor broke down under the pressure of the eighteenth-century "sick
trade," to the Enlightenment ethics of John Gregory and Thomas
Percival, to the American appropriation process that culminated in
the American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics, and to the
British turn to medical jurisprudence in the 1858 Medical Act. Roy
Porter formally presented our idea as a plan for two back-to-back
c- ferences to the Wellcome Trust, and I presented it to the
editors of the PHI- LOSOPHY AND MEDICINE series, H. Tristram
Engeihardt, Jr. and Stuart Spicker. The reception from both parties
was enthusiastic and so, with the financial backing of the former
and a commitment to publication from the latter, Roy Porter, ably
assisted by Frieda Hauser and Steven Emberton, - ganized two
conferences. The first was held at the Wellcome Institute in -
cember 1989; the second was sponsored by the Wellcome, but was
actually held in the National Hospital, in December 1990.
Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its predecessor
arose over lunch in the cafeteria of the old Wellcome Institute. On
an atternoon in Sept- ber 1988, Dorothy and Roy Porter, and I,
sketched out a plan for a set of conf- ences in which scholars from
a variety of disciplines would explore the emergence of modern
medical ethics in the English-speaking world: from its pre-history
in the quarrels that arose as gentlemanly codes of etiquette and
honor broke down under the pressure of the eighteenth-century "sick
trade," to the Enlightenment ethics of John Gregory and Thomas
Percival, to the American appropriation process that culminated in
the American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics, and to the
British turn to medical jurisprudence in the 1858 Medical Act. Roy
Porter formally presented our idea as a plan for two back-to-back
c- ferences to the Wellcome Trust, and I presented it to the
editors of the PHI- LOSOPHY AND MEDICINE series, H. Tristram
Engeihardt, Jr. and Stuart Spicker. The reception from both parties
was enthusiastic and so, with the financial backing of the former
and a commitment to publication from the latter, Roy Porter, ably
assisted by Frieda Hauser and Steven Emberton, - ganized two
conferences. The first was held at the Wellcome Institute in -
cember 1989; the second was sponsored by the Wellcome, but was
actually held in the National Hospital, in December 1990.